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Meta: Mood on bots? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm curious how the (non-bot!) subscribers to this community feel about the bot posts here.

Personally, I'm not entirely comfortable with posts to pictures that give me no real sense of who created the image or how.

What do the rest of you think? Are there rules we should make explicit?

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Fantastic weather, three days in a row (lemmy.world)
 

I'm rigged up and ready to go on a weekend where I got in three consecutive days of sailing -- first time ever. Next acquisition: tiller extension. It is now clearly in the must-have category.

If job listings get posted here, can there be a rule they have to state the pay range? in c/gis@lemmy.world
[–] rtbravo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Apologies for the late response. I hadn't posted any rules yet, but I'm certainly open to suggestions.

I'd like to lean in the direction of less than more on the rules and then deal with problems as they come up.

I'll modify the description to include some brief rules, and then we probably need to bring it up for discussion at some point. Provided we start to see some traffic.

[Full disclosure: I'm a director at a large software company (not ESRI!), and I'm not entirely sure our own HR department includes pay range in all their job postings -- although that may be changing right now with various rule changes at the state level in the US.]

The Hardest of All in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] rtbravo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This right here: Linux From Scratch (LFS).

If your goal is to learn, there is no better way than retrieving each tool individually and compiling it from the bottom up. LFS is Gentoo ... without all the ease of use built in. More accurately, LFS is a just a set of instructions for where to go to get the code and how to compile everything you need to build a Linux system from the bottom up.

I don't live in the world of LFS or Gentoo, but my foray into LFS gave me a much greater appreciation for the distribution(s) I do use as daily drivers. I greatly appreciate my distribution maintainers.

Looking for a good Sci Fi Novel available on Project Gutenberg in c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
[–] rtbravo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter books are public domain. They've got those on Project Gutenberg, but they may be too much "stock characters" for you.

Would some of the Lewis Carroll stuff scratch the "science fiction" itch?

It's a bit of a stretch, but Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court at least has the character development. And, strictly speaking, it is time travel. ;)

Finally, if quasi-fantasy and mythopeia do anything for you, there are things like George Macdonald's Phantastes and G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. Both those authors were influences on C. S. Lewis. But we're really straying away from anything that's strictly science fiction there.

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Meta: What to do with bot accounts? (lemmy.world)
 

For those who've wandered in here, you may have noticed the recent spat of bot postings. What's your take on that? Just can the postings and ban the user?

I think I'll probably do that preemptively right now, but I'm curious what experience or thoughts the rest of you have.

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Trouble seeing posts in some local communities (lemmy.world)
 

I've noticed I am not seeing posts for some local communities I subscribed to.

For instance, in the list of communities I see two posts on !Linux, but no posts when I click on the community. (And I've even commented on one post but can't get to it any more.)

I see something similar for !Games. The lists says nine posts and I see one.

What am I doing wrong? Under settings I made sure my language is "Undetermined." Anything else I should be checking?

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Field tools: what are the options? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm curious if anyone else has experience with tools for editing and collecting data in the field.

I'm vaguely aware of QField for QGIS. I believe ESRI has their own tools for that context, but I don't know what they are.

I'm also familiar with some tools for a specific industry: namely inspection and data collection for utilities. Some of the ones I know are probably best described as "long in the tooth."

What are the options these days? Where do you go for users that need to collect data in the field, whether it's inspection data, correcting existing GIS data, or collecting new data?

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QGIS Plugin Update May 2023 (blog.qgis.org)
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How To Save A Transparent PNG with Inkscape (www.youtube.com)
 

If you don't know Logos by Nick on YouTube, you want to check out what he does. I'm not associated with the creator, but I've learned more about Inkscape from the tutorials there than anyplace else.